From: wwd@netheaven.com
Date: Thu May 16 2002 - 08:52:48 PDT
>Folks,
>This is a well documented hoax, the so-called virus is part of all
>windows:
To the naive user does this sentence mean anything? Except just 'more of
the same, tiresome $hit, but now even stranger somehow than all those
times before.
Actually, this latest EPISODE is kind of interesting. Not a HOAX is the
usual sense of 'there are alligators in your toilet- DON'T sit down
without looking!' that users email all around the world, but now the VIRUS
is sending out and replicating the messages automatically untouched by
user hands. Moreover the instructions to YOU, the recipient user, con you
into performing actual DAMAGE to your computer operating system by telling
you to go to THIS particular file, located somewhere in a subdirectory of
/WINDOWS, and DELETEing that file. Saying to you that THAT PARTICULAR FILE
has somehow been 'altered' by the VIRUS and the only way to save yourself
a lot of hassle is to DELETE it right NOW. Neat: the user inflicts the
actual damage to his computer all by himself!
Ok, so none of us will do anything at all, this time, just sit back and
wait for the next assault, all the while budgeting so much per month for
av software, etc, to try & deal with this. It is like living in the RUST
BELT knowing that galvanic action is constantly eating away at your
hardware and your peace of mind.
Psst: a USED MAC computer for $100- could run all your email for you just
fine and dandy and have NONE of this at all. And be much easier to use
every morning simply because all this virus stuff would be a non-issue.
NON-ISSUE. The person who sells you the MAC will probably be willing to
set it up for you, if it isn't set up already, so the email will boot
right up for you.
I hope this HOAX explanation is ~correct. I deduced this by reading
between the lines of cyber-speak that naive users, myself included (no
virus since being online over 10 years), cannot comprehend at first
glance. But worth a try, FWIW.
Cosmo Lean
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